CS5611 Advanced Computer Graphics
Course Information Page
Spring 2016

Course Instructor	Dr. C.-K. Shene
Office	305 Rekhi CS Hall
Class Meeting	Monday and Wednesday, 16:05 - 17:20, Rekhi 217
Office Hour	Monday and Wednesday, 15:05 - 15:55, 305 Rekhi CS and by appointment
Phone	(906) 487-3392
e-mail	shene@mtu.edu

Click here to see the most recent announcements (April 16, 2016)

Textbook

Textbook is not required because all class notes and supporting software are available in /classes/cs5611/common/.

Other Materials

To be announced in class and in the common directory

Meeting Time and Office Hours

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
13:05 - 13:55		Dept. Meeting
14:05-14:55	CS3331 Fisher 328		CS3331 Fisher 328		CS3331 Fisher 328
15:05-15:55	Office Hour Rekhi 305		Office Hour Rekhi 305		Department Seminar
16:05-17:20	CS5611 Rekhi 217		CS5611 Rekhi 217

After class and e-mail discussions are welcome

Course Syllabus

Topics	Reading
Rendering Polygonal Objects	Backface Culling, Clipping Algorithms, Rasterization, Hidden Surface Removal, Z-buffer, and Shading Algorithms (e.g., Gourd Shading and Phong Shading)
Local Illumination Models	Ambient Light, Diffuse Reflection, Atmospheric Attenuation, Specular Reflection, Single and Multiple Light Sources
Ray Tracing	Recursive Ray Tracing Illumination Model, Intersection Computation, Shadows, Bounding Volumes, Backward vs. Forward Ray Tracing
Radiosity	The Radiosity Matrix, Progressive Refinement, Form Factors, the Hemicube and Hemisphere methods, Other Radiosity Topics
Photon-Mapping	Photons, Photon Tracing, Photon Scattering, Storing Photons, Rendering, Radiance Estimate
Anti-Aliasing Techniques	Supersampling algorithms, filtering, the A-buffer, Stochastic Sampling
Texture Mapping	Mapping During Modeling, Two-Stage Mapping, Reverse Projection, Mapping Polygons, Mapping Parametric Patches, Bump Mapping, View-Dependent Mapping, Procedural Texture Mapping
Meshes	Mesh Definition and Generation, Mesh Simplification, Mesh Compression, Multiresolution Modeling
Subdivision and Refinement	Corner cutting, Chaikin's Algorithm, Refinement Process, Mesh and Refinement Operators, Doo-Sabin Algorithm, Catmull-Clark Algorithm, Peters-Reif Algorithm, Loop Algorithm
Parametric Curves and Surfaces	Bézier, B-spline and NURBS curves and surfaces
Other Topics	To Be Determined Later

The actual order to be used in class may not be exactly the same.

Homework, Programming Assignments, Term Project and Exams

There will a three assignments: a simple demonstration type, a raytracing work, and a reasonably tough programming assignment. There will be one term project which will include a significant programming task, paper reading, and presentation. The topic is chosen by each of you based on your own interest. There will be a take-home 24-hour final, but no midterm.

Grading

The following are weights assigned to homework, exams and term project. The term project will be evaluated based on (1) your presentation, (2) your term paper, and (3) your implementation.

Homework/Programming	Exams	Term Project
20%	30%	50%

Late Policy

No late programming assignments will be graded, except that you have a valid excuse.

Collaboration and Cheating

No assignment-specific assistance should be given nor received on any programming assignment. Any outside help concerning the use of the computer facilities is acceptable. You may discuss the meaning or intent of an assignment, but not ways to program it. All work turned in must be completely your own. You must not share code or even outlines! Any and all use of programs from other texts or references must be explicitly stated as part of program documentation. In general, any acts of plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the course along with the submission of a report to the Dean of Students. See the hand-out on Computer Science Policy on Cheating and Academic Integrity Policy for more details.

Exams and Final

TBA

ADA

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